March Picture book of the month: Pirates Love Underpants by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort

Our March picture book of the month is the latest book in the wonderful Underpants series, which must boast the most extensive collection of Y-Fronts fiction has ever seen. We've seen Aliens Love Underpants, Dinosaurs Love Underpants and now Pirates.

Pirates Love Underpants follows the pirates as they sail on the pirate ship Black Bloomer past angry crocs, sharks in fancy knickers, and through gurgling swamps, on a quest to find...the fabled Pants of Gold.

I bought DS Aliens in Underpants recently - he loves it, and DD's been reading Aliens in Underpants Save the World at school. Great books, with lots of humour that appeals to parents too! I think we'll look out for this one and the Dinosaur one in the library and join in the chat

My daughter loves these books (currently just learned to say the word dinosaur - though its more like dinesor, but I think that's awesome for 19mths) and she thinks its funny that dinosaurs wear pants and that is her favourite book at the moment, so looking forward to getting the others in the series so that she can learn the word Pirate! ;)

Our book arrived this morning so once DD got home from Pre school, we sat down to read it.

It's a fun book to read, lots of scope for silly Pirate voices and the pictures have lots of funny details in which DD enjoyed pointing out (she especially loved the parrot in pants and I liked the Alien in Underpants tattoo on the Pirates arm) and I felt like it was just the right length.

As soon as I was finished, DD demanded I read it "again, again, again" so I did. Then she wanted it read "again, again, again" again. I suggested she read it to herself and she had a really good go, remembering a lot of the story very well. For her to have picked up that much after just two readings, it must really have captured her imagination.

I can see this being read again - at least once - at bedtime too. A really lovely book. Definitely in very much the same theme as Alien's love Underpants etc but still a lovely book in it's own right too

HelloThanks for sending us this book. My two daughters both absolutely love it. There favourite bit is seeing the dog and cat wearing pants, especially the dogs red fur lined pants! They also like looking at the pants on the inside cover and then checking who is wearing them. We already have Aliens love Underpants so were looking forward to the ending where it tells you to be careful of something, in this case making sure your pants don't fall down in public! Great quick read which I know we'll read a lot.

What a wonderful book! Sat and read it with DD (14mo) last night before bed and she absolutely loved it. She was pointing to the characters (she especially liked the parrot and the crocodiles) and found it highly amusing when I was doing the "snap snap" for the crocodiles!

I think I'll definitely be investing in some of the other books in the series

I was on holiday when the book arrived but I saw, and read the book, to my only grandson yesterday. I read it at least half a dozen times before he worked his way around my partner, his dad, his mum and my daughter. He just loved it and I think it will be a favourite for a long time. Thanks so much for the book. I confess I read it before I gave it to him and also read bits out to my partner as well